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Extra Charge

Most important item for bolts

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Monster Rounds

Push fast, farm fast, magician is best when wave is at enemy tower and he is raining hell from the bridge in the middle of any lane

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Extra Spirit

Surge is core, this is a no-brainer component early lane

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Imbue

Mystic Expansion

Hit bolts more often

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Enchanter's Emblem

Hit harder and more often, survive

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Enduring Speed

Faster movement = better ganks and survivability

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Active

Healing Rite

Our best choice for lane sustain since it contributes to rescue beam cost, almost always better than extra regen

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Rebuttal

I almost always buy this vs viscous, it's also a decent late game choice vs a heavy melee team if you have a spare slot

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Active

Guardian Ward

Help a teammate in lane, get some extra ability range and mobility

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Extra Regen

Usually just get a healing rite

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Restorative Shot

Usually just get a healing rite

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Rapid Recharge

Shoot bolts, then shoot bolts, then shoot bolts, then shoot another bolt

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Imbue

Surge of Power

Experimenting with this, hard maybe, more bolt damage

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Veil Walker

If you're feeling whimsical

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Superior Cooldown

More bolts, more assistants, more ults, more bunnies

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Boundless Spirit

Zoom, boom, survive

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Spirit Burn

Watch the world burn, buy this if they have crazy amounts of heal and you're super late game (40k+)

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Reactive Barrier

Scales fairly well late game with boons, buy this if you're repeatedly getting hit with annoying CC, better to just avoid those situations but can be a helpful crutch item

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Active

Rescue Beam

Can be useful for ability range, don't get super early, but you can help your team vs bebop hooks, lash ults, lassos, etc

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Active

Cultist Sacrifice

Helps to improve your early game power spike

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Suppressor

Can skip if not many m1 heroes

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Healbane

Usually your first and easiest option for heal

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Transcendent Cooldown

Maximized bolting

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Tankbuster

Exploding beef

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Imbue

Mystic Reverb

Hit your bolts, make your enemies cry while they wait to take another, heal from their pain

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Greater Expansion

Farm all camps easily, blow up the entire lane

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Active

Majestic Leap

Rain hell from above, have more effective aerial ults (lash, seven)

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Active

Magic Carpet

Be anywhere, look cooling doing it, extend the duration of everything

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Active

Warp Stone

Niche choice, instantly relocate yourself for jukes

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Spellbreaker

I will sometimes buy this ultra late game if a hero like talon, lash, or pocket are blowing me up instantly

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Active

Divine Barrier

Option to save teammates and get better aoe

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Imbue

Active

Echo Shard

Very late game utility option to enable your team vs two setes of bunnies

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Lightning Scroll

Only buy this if you're ultra late game and intending to steal seven/warden ults

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Active

Vortex Web

Niche choice that can set up your bolts and combo with big aoe teamfights

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Counterspell

Buy if you're a god gamer, block lash ults, wraith ults, good for anti hatecrime

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Active

Decay

Probably the second best choice for antiheal

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Active

Return Fire

Make m1 heroes regret attacking you

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Debuff Reducer

Don't buy this without finishing the remover

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Active

Debuff Remover

Buy vs situations where teams are focusing you with anti mobility items, like a haze with a slowing hex, lash with silence wave, also helps get out of long stuns and annoying debuffs like infernus

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Trophy Collector

If you roll the enemy early, this can be a decent purchase, not recommended before you finish most of your core items since you are delaying your power spike, reducing your early game power spike

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Mystic Slow

Slows = land more bolts

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Bullet Resilience

Survive

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Spirit Resilience

Survive

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Knockdown

Buy vs multi flier comp or if need interrupt

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Spirit Lifesteal

Buy if you're stealing ults like seven/warden

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Plated Armor

Buy if struggling vs gun damage

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Backstabber

Niche choice if you want easier tracking for curving bolts after proc, also the slow helps land bolts

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Mystic Shot

A bit more early burst

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Slowing Bullets

Slows = land more bolts

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Active

Infuser

Another way of sustaining for a long channeled ult steal

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Active

Disarming Hex

Disabling utility, helpful for disabling hyper carries

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Active

Unstoppable

Very rare buy, only get if you're repeatedly stealing big ults like seven's

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Escalating Exposure

Boost your damage for situations where you do continuous spirit damage (seven, warden ult steals)

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Arcane Surge

A possible way to get more power early, don't necessarily recommend but it can be a good upgrade if you plan on getting stam vs heroes that steal stam